Research

Dr Jon Cornwall is a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Early Learning in Medicine, Otago Medical School. Originally trained as a physiotherapist and clinical anatomist, Jon works in medical education and has research interests in posthumous human assets, including the posthumous utility of bodies, organs, and health information in healthcare and education. His other research interest is the functional morphology of spinal muscles, and muscle biology including age-related change in spinal muscle function.

He is a member of the Federative International Committee of Ethics in the Medical Humanities, the group that oversees ethical processes surrounding body donation for the International Federation of Association of Anatomists, and serves on the editorial board of several anatomy journals.